Profile
Harold D. Clarke (Ph.D. Duke University) is Ashbel Smith Professor, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas.
Principal research and teaching interests include the Political Economy of Public Support for Democratic Political Systems, Time Series Analysis and Survey Research Methods.
He has received research grants totaling nearly $2.5 million from the National Science Foundation (U.S.), the Canada Council, the Economic, Political and Policy Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the British Economics and Social Research Council.
He is currently a principal investigator of the 2001/02 British Election Study funded by the Economics and Social Research Council (UK). Another current research project is a study of the dynamics of party support, social capital and political participation in Great Britain funded by the National Science Foundation (U.S.) and the Economics and Social Research Council (UK).
His books include:
- Political Choice in Britain (Oxford University Press forthcoming)
- Citizens and Community: Political Support in a Democratic Society (Cambridge University Press)
- A Polity on the Edge: Canada and the Politics of Fragmentation (Broadview Press)
- Political Choice in Canada (McGraw Hill Ryerson)
- Citizen Politicians - Canada (Carolina Academic Press)
- Representative Democracy in the Canadian Provinces, (Prentice Hall)
- Absent Mandate: The Politics of Discontent in Canada (Gage)
- Absent Mandate: Interpreting Change in Canadian Electoral Politics (Gage)
- Absent Mandate: Canadian Electoral Politics in an Era of Restructuring (Gage)
- How Voters Change: The 1987 British Election Campaign in Perspective (Oxford University Press)
- Controversies in Political Economy: Canada, Great Britain, the United States (Westview Press)
- Parliament, Policy, and Representation (Methuen)
- Political Support in Canada: The Crisis Years (Duke University Press)
- Political Leadership in Anglo-American Democracies (Northern Illinois University Press)
- Economic Decline and Political Change: Canada, Great Britain, the United States (Pittsburgh University Press)
His articles have appeared in political science journals such as
- the American Political Science Review
- the American Journal of Political Science
- British Journal of Political Science
- Journal of Politics
- Electoral Studies
- Comparative Political Studies
- Comparative Politics
- Canadian Journal of Political Science
- the European Journal of Political Economy
- the European Journal of Political Research
- Legislative Studies Quarterly
- the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
- Quality & Quantity
- the Political Research Quarterly
- and in several anthologies.
He is editor-in-chief of Electoral Studies, and joint editor of the Political Research Quarterly. He regularly teaches times series analysis in the University of Essex Summer School in Data Analysis and Collection sponsored by the European Consortium for Political Research.
He is currently a member of the Political Science Advisory Panel of the National Science Foundation, and has served as a member of the Democratization and IGERT Advisory Panels of the National Science Foundation.
- Updated: July 26, 2006
